Spilling the beans eating, cooking, reading and writing in British women's fiction, 1770-1830 / [electronic resource] :
Sarah Moss.
- Manchester, U.K. ; New York, N.Y. : Manchester University Press, 2009.
- 202 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Eating her words: the politics of commensality in Frances Burney's fiction and letters -- The maternal aliment: feeding daughters in the works of Mary Wollstonecraft -- The bill of fare: the politics of food in Maria Edgeworth's children's fiction -- Eating for Britain: food, family and national identity in Susan Ferrier's fiction -- Afterword.
The study of food in literature complicates established critical positions. This title explores the relation in the context of late 18th and early 19th century women's fiction, where concerns about bodily, economic and intellectual productivity and consumption power decades of novels, conduct books and popular medicine.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
071907651X 9780719076510 9781847794475 (e-book)
English fiction--History and criticism.--18th century English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism. Food in literature.